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Alexis Martin

@alexislmartin

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Veteran, writer, occasional tennis player

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@alexislmartin
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6 months
@nootropicguy @erikjasperkier Do you ask yourself, why did she leave me? In addition to supplementation, try introspection.
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5 years
@neal_katyal Can we reflect on why she got tested for not feeling well when so many sick others cannot?
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4 months
@yashar I used to think that the Supreme Court justices and their wives were the best of us, the most humane and impartial gods of logic and fairness. I had no idea they were the type to get in petty disagreements with the neighbors.
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2 years
@washingtonpost What is the point of limiting insurance on deposits if they safeguard all SBV deposits? Only limiting insurance for the poor? Only bailing out when it suits them? When they are personal friends with bank owners? Very dodgy.
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4 years
@IngrahamAngle I care more about Trumps unrecorded meetings with Vladimir Putin, since you asked.
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3 years
@cstbrown81 @NicoleB_MD @DrToddWo @cherioteri @nbcsnl @AmerAcadPeds @OhioC4V @kidspluspgh @NECPeds @OHPediatricians Wait, they are at a conference? In person? When do many kids still can’t go to school in person (Flint, we haven’t forgotten you!) and the rest have to wear masks for 7 hours a day while learning to read and speak? Isn’t this a bit hypocritical?
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3 years
@KevinKileyCA More parents than teachers vote.
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3 years
@sparkie7224 @chriscfore @H2OPoloLove Not one person was checked for vax status.
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4 years
@0tavio0 @realDonaldTrump You know he doesn’t like minorities, right?,
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@cheersinnit @AdamSerwer But he’s an Eagle Scout ...
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@alexislmartin
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3 years
One school in Fairfax County (Braddock Elementary) reports that due to the pandemic, 98% of its students are below grade level in math. Only 3% are showing adequate progress toward proficiency. 70% are reading below grade level.
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3 years
@rweingarten @nypmetro Randi I’m extremely liberal but I nearly voted Youngkin too because of the atrocious, hypocritical way schools have handled this pandemic.
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5 years
@emilyabell @whosbecks @hrmoroz @MaraWilson I don’t understand how Jack Ma of China is able to donate enough tests to test ALL 52 countries in Africa, still have enough left to donate to Europe, and here is the USA we can only test the rich and famous.
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4 years
@realDonaldTrump This is getting old. You are done.
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2 years
@OmariJHardy @mulronie Have you heard of housing shortages?
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4 months
@Emspoljari @ArafehLaith Wow that’s really heartless and evil.
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2 years
@LynColl80557897 @mhdksafa @elissaben70 And wouldn’t have the problem with staff if they paid well and put more emphasis on staff and less on profit.
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4 years
@morningmika @jack Even if the tweets are deleted, it will still go on the presidential record, correct? Future generations need to look at these tweets - the way we study the writings of great men like FDR and Lincoln - and understand what a bad president he was.
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10 months
@brianoflondon @yashar 2.3 million Palestinian refugees live in Jordan.
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4 years
@EricTrump You bunch of grifters need to go.
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2 years
@Mithra_Is_Fine @MarcusBlimi @catholicpat I have a large purse with lots of compartments - I recently took three separate flights with that bag going through security before I realized my full sized scissors were in there. It’s a farce y’all.
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4 years
@cicidog2 @SophiaCannon Are we really bailing out the churches? I thought I saw the gov was giving direct payments to churches?
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4 years
@truth Turn off his microphone since he can’t control himself.
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3 years
@fcpsnews @DoBetterFCPS @dpwalrod @OaktonHS @USArmy My first grader can’t read. Can we reflect on that?
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2 years
@willmenaker @MaryMargOlohan Let's all go to her house!!
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3 years
@mdvannostrand @conservmillen No. I’m triggered by this display of absolute #Covidhypocrisy . My kids want to enjoy recess or lunch but they can’t because of #Covid . This is not ok.
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1 year
@KatrinaPierson @FoxNews Right? When we could let the kids go hungry like during the Great Depression?!?
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4 years
@P4AHCF I’d pay so that every American has access to health care.
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1 year
@ChrisMurphyCT What happened to 3/
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5 months
@sage_stage Low expectations are the sign of a society in decline. We are the Roman Empire.
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3 years
@JumaaneWilliams @CDCgov Absolutely we should ... except at basketball games, right? Just the kids.
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4 months
@robbystarbuck @yashar You don’t reckon that a Supreme Court Justice might be able to handle disputes - even highly emotive ones - in a more sophisticated way than flying the US Flag upside down? That’s the sort of thing my teenager might do.
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5 years
@grizatlcp @DrDenaGrayson Here is Vucic with Jared Kushner.
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8 months
@alon_mizrahi He really just wants Israel to control all of the West Bank and Gaza and to build beach front condos in Gaza for Israelis. No Armageddon.
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2 years
@tedcruz How about you just focus on your power grid?
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3 years
@glennkirschner2 What is well regulated by anyone being able to buy a gun at any time for any reason?
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3 years
@rweingarten When our leaders can go mask-free at sporting events, our kids should go mask-free at school.
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2 years
@drandrewb That’s a corporate choice. Based only on profit.
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6 years
@Daniel_ThomasG @BBCBusiness Where is this magical place and how do I get there?
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1 year
@smorrisey 1. My kids didn’t learn to read 2. My kids didn’t learn to spell 3. Leveled readers make no sense 4. It was frustrating for us all 5. She blamed me, the parent for my kid not learning
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3 years
@markwarschauer The point isn't whether kids mind masks. The point is why kids are the *only* ones forced to wear masks? When leaders happily pose, mask-free in a stadium full of people to watch grown men play mask-free, it sends the wrong message to kids. Are masks essential or not?
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4 months
@Emspoljari @ArafehLaith I meant you. Sorry.
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4 years
@michelleerin @emptywheel Follow the governors. Trump knows he has Florida, Arizona and Ohio - whatever the polls say - because their Republican governors won’t let Trump lose.
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3 years
@hwinkler4real When my pregnancy doesn’t make you sick.
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4 years
@timkaine How come we haven’t heard from Pence since the impeachment started?
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4 years
@SecondLady @VP Time to start moving!
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3 years
@MarkHertling @RadioFreeTom I spent a year at DLI learning Polish only to find out, while translating for Partnership for Peace, that the Polish soldiers spoke better English than my Polish!
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3 years
@JenniferBoysko Every kid in my daughter’s 1st grade class is vaxxed too. Doesn’t make a difference to policy makers. But this is the problem with mask mandates. When you’re eating, you are most contagious/vulnerable to infection. Exceptions make mask mandates useless.
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3 years
@jilltucker If california can hold the super bowl, it can surely educate kids in person.
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4 years
@NYMag @mkerrhardy That dog could have frozen to death, right?
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6 months
@everettis1 You mean ‘teaching?’
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4 years
@SasThilak @PoPville My kids are never going back to school, are they?
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2 years
In the @fcpsnews calendar survey, FCPS is suggesting shortening the amount of time kids spend in class so teachers can help students more? They are also suggesting 2 asynchronous days (ie they get paid for not teaching) to the calendar. @FCPSSupt kids need more teaching not less.
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3 years
@JLG1017 @ChrisMurphyCT Then kids will never go back to school. You’ll have a generation of uneducated, unsocialized kids - while adults go to restaurants, concerts and parties - and you’ll still have vivid snd guns. Don’t penalize the kids.
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3 years
@NateBaldwinEsq @JenniferBoysko No we’re not. And we support @JenniferBoysko on a number of other issues. But hypocrisy when it comes to masking kids is just wrong. FYI they don’t mask kids in Euporean schools and kids and teachers are fine.
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1 year
@williamlegate This was the point. Elon leans into authoritarianism. Twitter was dangerous before because it made too many people too well informed.
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8 months
@LindseyGrahamSC @jmart To be clear, are you asking Biden to declare war on Iran?
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3 years
@DrTomFrieden The Super Bowl was a health messaging fiasco. How am I to tell my kids they must wear a mask to school when they just watched 70,000 people have a large maskless party on tv?
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3 years
@NYCMayor Why do toddlers have to mask if you don't? Do you think they are dirtier that you? More contagious? What is the rationale?
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3 years
@senatormelendez That is daft. Other vaccines are also required.
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4 years
@TeamTrump I’m seeing the next president of the United States reassure the country that he will take the pandemic seriously. 1000 people dead everyday. You should all be ashamed of yourselves @TeamTrump .
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3 years
Diocese of Arlington schools go mask optional. #Breaking #OpenSchools
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3 years
@MeAgain2Me @fcpsnews Maybe we should close restaurants, nail salons, gyms, nonessential flights, bars, concerts and sporting events before we close schools?
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3 years
@Jusrangers Do we really have to talk about sex in kindergarten though? My kids don't even care what gender someone is ...
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3 years
Can someone please explain why educators can go mask free but kids can’t? @FCPSSupt @SecCardona
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@fcpsnews school board member @KarlFrischFCPS 🥚 @KarlFrisch can go mask free but not your kids. This is straight up #childabuse from a man who has only earned a HS diploma and is not a parent but wants the government to be your kid’s parent. No thank you.
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3 years
@SenLouiseLucas I hope it involves a mask for you and no mask for my toddler because we are tired of the confusing health care messaging.
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3 years
@gburgatheist @IsaSaeko @CordellTraffic If adults really cared, there’d be gun control.
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6 months
@S_Oberle Word problems are often badly written - sometimes I even struggle to figure out what they are asking!
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3 years
@DennisDMcDonald @bluevirginia How is the Super Bowl ok but my 6 year old going to school without a mask is deadly?
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3 years
@NameUnnecessary @MOREcaucusUFT If any of you are found at a gym, restaurant, salon, movie theater, concert, on a flight to a holiday …
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3 years
When my child accesses the free apps for math and reading on the school website, like ABCya, how come she has to watch an ad every time she clicks on a ‘learning game?’ And why are all those ads for noneducational video games @fcpsnews ? @stella_pekarsky @FCPSSupt
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7 months
@rich_goldberg What is the path to survival for all the Palestinian kids? Do they get options?
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11 months
@MrDanielBuck Wish schools would just focus on education. Set up a separate institution if you want to focus on the other stuff too.
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6 years
@alt_labor @FoxNews @alt_labor : NOT ok to harass people no matter what they wear.
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5 years
@juliettekayyem I sent mine to a week’s sleep away summer camp for that price ...
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3 years
@SenTedCruz I think even my dog could credibly argue that.
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4 years
@DrewWilderTV @nbcwashington Please mention that these monitors are unvaccinated themselves while the teachers have been eligible for them.
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@FFXParentsAssoc We’re **NOT** masking.
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5 years
@ChineseSomalia The Chinese Embassy in Somalia couldn’t find a photo of a beach in either Somalia or China to illustrate its tweet.
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4 years
@TeamTrump @realDonaldTrump Now he's just embarrassing himself.
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5 years
@farhip @BretBaier O’Hare tonight.
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4 years
@marcorubio @WhiteHouse I thought it was because historic unemployment + president who doesn’t care = angry people
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6 months
@EFischberger Euromed is a network of human rights NGOs.
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3 years
@TheLeadCNN This is the end of public school in America.
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4 years
@donwinslow Don it’s a good question. Who does the laundry in her house? An illegal immigrant? A handmaiden? Who? 7 kids - she is definitely NOT doing it and neither is her husband.
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@MrDanielBuck I got in trouble for talking too much in third grade. I had to spend 3 full days in the library writing a report. I wrote about the gold rush. It was a very good report, if you ask me, and sparked my love of research and writing.
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@lauferlaw And his music is horrible.
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4 years
@JohnSmithChgo @PopularEcology You mean those trailer park people who sometimes send their last dollars to televangelists because they believe the crap they are preaching?
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4 years
@TeamTrump 350,000 dead and the worst mismanagement of a crisis in modern history says he did.
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4 years
@TheRealHoarse @mattgaetz Is it me or is that hand in Gaetz’s shoulder oddly not the same as that kid?
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9 months
@MrZachG So we’ve thought and thought and come to realize teaching the old fashioned way works best.
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8 months
@proftinkerbell @vlal42 Tell me you have no kids without telling me. I knew of high school seniors looking after their preschool and elementary siblings while trying to learn because their parents had to work in person.
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5 years
@THECITYNY The point is why is she not eligible for a test? Testing needs to be widely and easily available now.
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6 months
@HKorbey When you have twins, you can see the huge difference between what different teachers teach and what the kids learn.
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1 year
@tetheredtoed1 My son who plays sports gets so much attention but my daughter, who studies a lot, gets no attention.
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